The Shermer Allegations: Some Considerations for Those to Whom This Is a Nasty Shock | En Tequila Es Verdad (September 13): “No, no, no. You do not get to play the “Everything’s okay until he’s in jail!” card. Not when you’ve built your reputations on taking down psychics and Bigfoot enthusiasts not by dragging them into court and having them convicted of fraud, but proving by a preponderance of evidence that they’re full of shit. We’re not a courtroom convicting and sentencing Michael Shermer to time behind bars, but a group of people deciding, based upon the evidence and patterns we have, whether he is a safe person to have around us, and whether he’s a person we wish to support. We do not need a legal verdict to make these decisions. Don’t pretend we do, it makes you look ignorant and foolish.”

[CW: sex]My Apparatus | Model View Culture (September 8): “Who believed their life was private? Who got to have that right? That privilege? I didn’t read science fiction because it seemed far out. I read it because it seemed close. Not only for our political circumstances, which perhaps can be called dystopian, but for my little cyborg body.”

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